Totem is now a front-end for mythtv?

I just read about Gnome 2.22's new features and a new plugin for Totem. Could be useful?

Code:

Totem Makes Friends With MythTV, YouTube:
While GNOME's movie player, Totem, is far from being a
new project, in GNOME 2.22 are several enticing additions.
Totem 2.22 features plugins for YouTube and MythTV.
The YouTube plug-in allows you to search and browse
YouTube.com video files all within Totem. The MythTV
plugin for GNOME allows you to view recordings from a
MythTV server as well as view live TV. We have
especially enjoyed the MythTV plug-in and look forward to
its continued development. Two other new Totem
plug-ins are Publish and Tracker, which allows you to
share your current playlist via HTTP and search for
videos, respectively. The Totem 2.21/2.22 branch
also contains other improvements and fixes for this
movie player.

Re: Totem is now a front-end for mythtv?

There are still a few requirements that need to be implemented for this to happen before Hardy. In the current implementation, they are not all feasible due to licensing, but I'm talking with upstream about it.

Re: Totem is now a front-end for mythtv?

Originally Posted by superm1

There are still a few requirements that need to be implemented for this to happen before Hardy. In the current implementation, they are not all feasible due to licensing, but I'm talking with upstream about it.

Re: Totem is now a front-end for mythtv?

I was under the impression that this is in for 2.20 so I was going to compile hardy's totem 2.21.90 for gutsy just to check this out. So it's not currently in hardy but it is in current development version of gnome or neither?

Re: Totem is now a front-end for mythtv?

Originally Posted by McQuaid

I was under the impression that this is in for 2.20 so I was going to compile hardy's totem 2.21.90 for gutsy just to check this out. So it's not currently in hardy but it is in current development version of gnome or neither?

This isn't in hardy yet. gmyth just entered NEW today. https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+queue
After it is accepted by archive admins, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad needs to be rebuilt against it (which the upload is in dependency wait for gmyth as I write this).
After that, gmyth has to be promoted to main, and then lastly totem can be built against it.

If you want to try it for gutsy, pull the source package from NEW, pull the upload that is in dep wait for the gstreamer plugins, and then pull totem, and add libgmyth-dev to the build dependencies.

I'll try to take some screenshots of what it looks like, but its basically a list of recordings on the right side. When you open one up, it goes into streaming mode off the backend. Skipping functionality isn't in it yet, so no comm skips or anything fun like that.

No GUI that I can see yet for controlling live tv other than giving it URLs that are myth://

Re: Totem is now a front-end for mythtv?

Does this plugin require an 8.04 mythbuntu backend? (rather than 7.10)

I got it running off my 7.10 backend. Works a treat.

All I had to do was jump into gconf-editor and specify the IP address and password here:

The automatic codec installer worked a treat. Correctly identified the required codec packages and installed them without issue.

The only problems I see are:
- Video/Audio sync is off
- No seeking
- Deinterlace does not work
However I think these are more problems with the codec than the plugin (same problems when I play the mpg file directory from my recordings directory).

Also, I think the 'Configure' button in the 'Configure Plugins' dialog of Totem would be good place to add a GUI to configure backend login details so we don't need to use gconf.